Between 1883 and 1967 the lives of Aboriginal people in NSW were in the hands of the NSW Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board. The impact of the Board’s systematic control over Aboriginal communities through policies of segregation, assimilation, child removal and wage withholding would endure for decades, and the negative results of those government directives are still being seen today. To date, however, no substantive history of the NSW Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board exists. This project will provide such a history, based on extensive archival and oral history research. Holding critical importance to NSW Aboriginal communities, the project will encourage the development of Indigenous historians in the process.